OAKLAND (CBS SF) — 4 longshoremen who work on the Port of Oakland have filed go well withtowards the Pacific Maritime Affiliation and SSA Marine, alleging that they’re tolerating racial harassment on the port, their lawyer stated Monday.

San Francisco lawyer Angela Alioto stated that final Nov. 9, the day after President Donald Trump was elected, a number of Caucasian mechanics acquired right into a pickup truck owned by SSA Marine, which is predicated in Seattle, and put a accomplice flag within the again and drove all through the terminal space on the port screaming and yelling.

Alioto stated not one of the mechanics have been reprimanded and neither the Pacific Maritime Affiliation, which is predicated in San Francisco and represents delivery corporations, nor SSA Marine did something to cease them.

Alioto alleged that the PMA, which operates all longshore amenities on the Port of Oakland, has “turned the docks of Oakland right into a racially hostile work setting for his or her staff.”

She stated, “PMA has not solely refused to take the required steps to stop and get rid of the racial harassment and intimidation however has affirmatively obstructed makes an attempt to treatment the harassment.”

Alioto alleged that the PMA and SSA Marine “are nicely conscious that the discrimination continues to this present day.”

The PMA and SSA Marine didn’t reply to requests Monday to touch upon the go well with, which was filed in Alameda County Superior Courtroom final month.

The plaintiffs within the go well with are John Hughes, a longshore employee on the Port of Oakland for 26 years, Rickie Cox, a longshoreman for thirteen years, Keith Hamilton, a 50-yr-previous longshore employee on the port for 18 years, and Devin Thompson, who’s been a longshore employee for 26 years.

Alioto stated Thompson and his household noticed a hangman’s noose hanging over the aspect of a ship on the Port of Oakland on July 5 throughout a celebration of the anniversary of the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike.

Alioto stated she needs to make it clear that the go well with doesn’t identify the Port of Oakland as a defendant.

The go well with seeks unspecified basic damages for the 4 plaintiffs for his or her psychological ache, anguish and emotional misery.